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(Amendment  5  to                                                    U.S.  DEPOSITORY 
B.A.I.  Order  151.)  \ ' 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU    OF    ANIMAL   INDUSTRY. 


AMENDMENT  5  TO  RULE  1,  REVISION  3.-T0  PREVENT  THE  SPREAD 
OF  SPLENETIC  FEVER  IN  CATTLE.  AMENDMENT  COVERING  CHANGES 
IN  FEEDING  STATIONS  FOR  NONINFECTED  CATTLE. 


Effective  on  and  after  December  15,  1908. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 

It  is  ordered  that  that  portion  of  Rule  1,  Revision  3,  to  prevent  the 
spread  of  splenetic  fever  in  cattle,  effective  on  and  after  April  1,  1908, 
which  relates  to  "Feeding  Stations  for  Noninfected  Cattle,"  is  hereby 
amended  to  read  as  follows : 

"Cattle  not  of  the  quarantined  area  which  are  transported  interstate 
by  rail  through  the  quarantined  area  may  be  unloaded  therein  for  rest, 
feed,  and  water  into  properly  equipped  noninfectious  pens  set  apart  for 
such  cattle  at  the  Fort  Worth  Stock  Yards  at  Fort  Worth,  Tex.;  the 
stock  yards  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Texas  Railway  at  Hodge  and 
Denison,  Tex.;  the  stockyards  of  the  International  and  Great  Northern 
Railroad  at  Laredo,  Tex.;  the  Southern  Pacific  Railway  stock  yards  at 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  the  stock  yards  at  Colton,  Cal.;  the  stock  yards  of 
the  St.  Louis  and  San  Francisco  Railroad  at  Sapulpa,  Okla.;  the  stock 
yards  of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Texas  Railway  at  Muskogee,  Okla.; 
and  at  such  other  points  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  authorized  by 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  provided  such  pens  and  the  platforms, 
chutes,  and  alleyways  leading  thereto  are  constructed  and  maintained 
in  accordance  with  the  specifications  set  out  in  the  regulations  of  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  prevent  the  spread  of  splenetic  fever  in  cattle. 

"All  cattle  handled  in  such  noninfectious  pens  shall  be  free  from  ticks 
(Margaropus  annulatus)  and  shall  not  have  been  unloaded  at  any  point 
in  the  quarantined  area  other  than  the  designated  unloading  points 
named  herein  or  hereafter  authorized  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
and  they  shall  be  reloaded  into  the  same  cars  from  which  unloaded  or 
into  other  cars  which  have  been  cleaned,  washed,  and  disinfected  as 


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specified  in  Regulation  14  of  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  Order  143  and 
amendments  thereto,  immediately  before  loading  therein,  and  reshipped 
as  uninfected  cattle." 

This  amendment  shall  become  and  be  effective  on  and  after  Decem- 
ber 15,  1908,  and  is  subject  to  amendment  or  revision  on  statutory  notice. 
Done  at  Washington  this  third  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1908. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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